Letter To Senator Boxer 1-29-05

On some of the websites for our senators they inform us that these 17 issues are what they will all be deciding on this term and some sites ask us to list the 3 most important ones. In bold, I'm going to list my immediate thoughts on each item so I can return to this list and expand on some ideas then write those who actually listen.  Feel free to use this list by copy paste and you can then delete my comments and add your own notes. 

1) Preserving Social Security and Medicare   I don't agree with Private accounts in place of the current system because of the fees middle men claim, the fleeting and indeterminable reliability of investments and the brokers, and because the companies we will be investing in will be overseas, not American companies in America, unless its the 1) defense contracts 2) pharmeceuticals 3) insurance portfolio companies (all past and current clients of the Bush families).  I do agree Social Security should be reworked and monies borrowed from them immediately replaced with some other area covering the bond deficit.

2) Protecting a woman's right to choose Note, this is not the "abortion bill" as the misinformed people would have you believe; its about choice.  In order to have a choice you must first be born and because a woman has been born a woman has a choice.  This isn't something that should be legislated.  If you reword this and say to perform abortions should be illegal because the woman is choosing to, with the doctor's help, to alter the predestined selection of nature, then we must also make sure it is co-legistlated to say invitro fertilization should also be illegal as well as saving the life of the dying person, since it is also natural to die.  Look, we have choice and we will suffer our choices as well as be blessed by them, but each individual does have free choice in a free society.  We make mistakes; don't take away our right to learn from them.

3)Making health care more affordable for families Define health care as preventative medicine and for those who are ill, allow them to be treated without stipulating rules regarding pre-existing conditions or pre-qualifications.

4 )Ensuring that polluters -- not taxpayers -- pay for toxic waste cleanups Polluters are companies doing business in America.  Since we are probusiness, we the people owe it to these companies to assist them in ways to do business with less pollution.  We should help to fund the building of environmentally friendly structures, saline plants to reuse water, silt systems to gather residuals that would normally pollute, research and development to help use what is left behind.  If after that companies who want to do business in America don't repent of their polluting ways, we fine them heavily and give them no longer than a year to vacate our soil.  Dig it, this is terrorism to us to our environment and since we are being sold on fear of terrorism  we should begin with companies who have no regard for our environment, companies who put profit over ethics and humanity.

5) Enacting a Patient's Bill of Rights for those enrolled in HMOs Do away with HMO's and PPO's.  They are leeches sucking the money out of the wallets of folks who need real health care.  Some things should be socialized, and regardless how you might argue Canada and Italy's medicine, with the amount of money we contribute in taxes, we could provide wonderful health care to the entire Western Hemisphere.  What about Dental Care?  Now that kills the pocket book real fast.

6) Fully funding the No Child Left Behind education law Do away with this fluff notion and get real folks.  Every child has and has had for years, the right to quality education just as Teachers were to have the right to teach.  Yet we have these tests which measure failures and run through obscure stat counters and every child who takes these tests does not benefit from them.  Allow the teachers to teach and promote testing that shows the child where they need to improve.  Leave the tests and the interpretations to the teachers thank you very much.  I've got a lot to say about education and taxation  funding and protocols but not enough space in a blog to address it.

7) Ensuring veterans have adequate health care All Americans should have adequate health care but if we depend on our military for our safety we need to be aware that military personnel give up many of our civil rights to do their job and many get hurt or die.  These families most definately should have immediate health care at their use without a red tape line to walk.

8) Increasing resources for homeland security Teach the American people how to look out for one another without violating each others rights and how to know the difference.  Teach the police, firefighters, forestry dept, border patrols, etc how to deal with explosives, toxins and other such terrorist related things.  Make it a regular part of their training and their job description. Leave the "digital divide" as Bush calls it out of security for our homeland.  The internet is the number one vunerability for our homeland security.  Alert the people of the world about this and remember if you can see information, the originator can see information about you.  Its like looking through windows, ya look out, someone looks in.

9) Increasing the minimum wage Quit driving the costs of goods up and the wages won't have to keep raising.  Discourage high interest rates and credit card debt by first being an example in not spending what we don't yet have.  Just remember, a minimum wage is not a living wage.

10)Passing a comprehensive transportation bill -- to create jobs and improve transportation And more pollution and more tax revenues because the more than use it the more maintenence is needed and on and on and on and ya know what, I don't have an opinion on this at this time.

11)Ensuring that America’s judges represent mainstream American view No judge should render a decision that depends on anyone's point of view.  A judge has only this to do; interpret the law justly and render a decision.

12)Providing a tax cut for the cost of college I'm against tax cuts.  I believe all companies and people of this country should pay 1 % taxes to federal programs, 1/2% to states, 5% sales tax which are divided up for cities with 2% of that going to counties.  These taxes will go off of gross earnings--no deductions period. (I'm radical this way)

13)Preserving more of America’s wild and natural places Learn to respect and care for our environment and our cement cities too. 

14)Passing a Violence Against Children Act If we enforced laws currently on the books, people are forbidden to cause harm to other people and living things therefore this law is not supposed to be needed.  Where are we going wrong?

15)Expanding the COPS Program -- to put more police officers on the streets This may become necessary, but not to control the masses.  We need police at this time to be the eyes against insurgents who might try to enact revenge upon our country because we have put profits and our national interests over humane, ethical, and respectful treatment of folks abroad and their customs.

16)Reducing our national debt Number 1 in importance.  The federal reserve owns the individuals who have credit card and home loan debts as well as our country's bonds.  The federal reserve depends largely on foreign investors, such as the Saudi's, the Chinese, the Germans, and whomever else we whore ourselves to.

17)Passing an effective National Energy Policy   Don't you  believe what they tell you about CNG and LNG.  Most of the wars we are engaged in are about our consumption level for products such as these and OIL.  They do pollute and in different ways; not only that, to extract them kills our environment.

Roe Vs. Wade....Again.

The women at work today were commenting on how it seems to them that we are heading back to the fifties (their era) and as I was doing their hair and listening they would periodically look to me for a sign that I too was listening.  I finally said, well just remember that after the fifties came the sixties. 

We got to talking Roe Vs. Wade and our clients know that I support Pro-life and Pro-choice concepts but feel that its not something that should be legislated.  When Jesus took a look at a coin with Ceasar's face on it and tossed it back to the owner of the coin saying, "Render unto Ceasar what is Ceasar's," I took that to mean that government is in charge of legal issues while God is in charge of spiritual morals etc.  I believe this was the first clearly defined precept that shows the separation of church and state. 

I believe God gave us free will so why do we keep trying to legislate the conditions of freedom?  Ahh darn.  My next client arrived.  I need to scoot, but would very much like to reason through this again.  Later gators.

Condoleezza and Bush have the Same Birdie in Their Ears.

Condoleeza was questioned today about Iraq and skirted the questions as she did on the 9/11 hearings, passing the buck every chance she got.  Republicans and Democrats alike know and admitted that Condoleeza is a shoe in for the position that this is all just another formality, a posturing of sorts.

But what I really enjoyed, was when our lady American, Barbara Boxer, grilled Connie using Connie's own words.  She put them up on huge cards for all to see.  Condoleeza couldn't answer why we went to war with Iraq prior to them taking their afternoon break, so allow me to tell you why we went to war.

Long ago, we used Osama Bin Ladin to help us bring down the insurgency in the Khyber Pass up through Chechnya and Russia, to apply intimidation on all nearby regions.  The Saudi Princes invested heavily  in Bush 41 and Bush 43 defense contract portfolios.  The Saudi's paid for us to take Sadam out.  The Saudi people want to control the entire region of natural gas and petrol from Russia to Qatar.  This jig isn't up till we the American people smarten ourselves up and quit buying into the dumming down policies the Bush Occupation is selling us.

This Occupation is Driving Us Over The Edge

People are up in arms and laughter as we are being warned that our not so beloved Newt Gingrich is thinking of running for the GOP ticket.  We are asking one another if we think he could ever become president.  Some say, "never say never," while others cry, "never!" 

There is speculation that Jeb Bush is the next for leader of the Occupation while we are being told by Bush 41 that it isn't likely to happen.  Still, with Newt announcing to us his attentions, I can hear the Republican Party begging Jeb to reconsider.    Everything is possible with the exception of compassionate sanity.

In this world, we have become numb to much of the tragedy.  Every disaster, every war, and every injustice should bring us out of our cacoon, but instead its like we retreat to a web someone else designed to maintain order amidst the chaos.

I"m heartbroken and its no one's fault.  I weep deeply because the truths others have, like the real stories in the Tsunami disaster, they aren't being heard quite like they happen.  How do you catch the real depth of a soul's pain at the loss of a loved one.  There was a story aol featured about a mother having to choose which son to let float away.  Oh my gosh!   How can we really know what that is like but what little I do know has me weeping in their pain.  That son was found alive by the way, but the emotional scars done will be irreversable.  He knows his mom told him to "let go."  The story continues and will probably go untold.  There was the other story of the woman who was saved suddenly by some stranger who was determined to save her.  Moments later she saw him floating belly down in the water.  The next wave hit and a woman pleaded with her to stick out her hand.  She was so in shock all she could do was hold on for her life and she never saw that woman again. She now lives and asks herself, "Would that woman have survived if I just stuck out my hand?" 

Disaster builds character they say, but it will have left haunting impressions on the souls of those who came through it.  I weep for them, for their stories.  This is so enormous, this this, you know what I mean.  Its the war, the wars, the disaster, the disasters, its the sum total of what we are all passing through, some of us in abject numbness; hey, work calls, right?  Meanwhile others not so distant are trying to put their lives together.

Who has time to blame anymore?  As I sit here trying to stop crying, Fox comes on.  Seems my son thought it would be a nice joke to turn on the last station I look to for news.  They have just announced more fear on the horizon as they sold us the news about the nefarious potential loan bombers who will walk into the polling places to prevent the elections this month.  They are promising us a most fearful month of terrorism.  Go Fox, sell your followers Fear.  Perhaps they will gobble it down like a bowl full of Wheaties as they tell each other, "It's the breakfast of Champions!"  Fear, mm mm. 

Okay, so it worked.  I'm not quiet as weepy.   When I think of Fox and the bullshit others who are Fox watchers speak of, I get angry.  Why is it they eat the bullshit and the rest of us get sickened by it.  <shaking head>.   Peace to you all.   We will figure out our parts some day.